Jonathan Thompson
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Thompson is a Principal Engineer with 15+ years leading large-scale, service-oriented architectures and product engineering across both startups and major tech firms. He currently drives platform and infrastructure work at Amazon Web Services after shaping AOL’s Applications and Commerce strategy as CTO, where he instituted a company-wide “Foundation” architecture emphasizing message buses, language agnosticism, and cloud-native patterns. Jonathan co-founded and architected product platforms at Delve/Pluggd and Kiha, designing patented media-search algorithms and high-performance, message-based systems that prioritized testability and on-demand scaling. He’s skilled at transforming legacy systems—migrating tens of millions of mailboxes and modernizing identity services—and at raising engineering standards through automation, code review, and developer productivity frameworks. Known for mentoring technical leaders and fostering cross-functional collaboration, he combines deep hands-on systems design with a knack for operationalizing large teams and complex migrations.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (38)
sparkjava-framework10
jersey10
aws-lambda10
api10
aws10
spring-jersey10
sparkjava10
rest-api10
java9
spring9
amazon-api9
api-server9
api-gateway9
amazon-api-gateway9
lambda9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jt0/gomer
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 63 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
jeppetto/jeppetto
Apr 2011 - Apr 2017
Contributions:163 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 6 years
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